Inspired by iconic moments of change, growth, erasure, loss and disaster drawn from the McCord Museum archives, this interactive installation re-imagines historic moments of Montreal’s growth as a city. During Nuit Blanche, the audience will be invited to make paper cutouts of invented architecture, and to add them into a cumulative installation. To bring the installation alive, audience members will use mobile lights to activate soundscapes and animate three-dimensional shadows.

We’ve been developing a new series of workshops that uses shadow puppetry and projection!

Hosted by the Ville Montréal, our first workshop of this series took place at St. James’s Church. During the community Halloween party, our participants turned themselves into shadow monsters. More workshops coming soon.

Over 800 people came through Off the Hook Gallery to check out our sneak preview performance of Kouk-Lá and performances by Panadream Theatre and Julie Desrosiers. It was a great success and a lot of all night fun.

Kouk Lá is an audio-visual collaboration between Mere Phantoms and musicians Lucas Moore on clarinet and Jean-Phillipe Reny on oud. Employing a range of analog and digital visual trickery Kouk Lá takes it’s cue from the Turkish word “kukla” meaning puppet. The performer and the puppets switch identities as they negotiate their place in a more than human world. The Music for the show is composed by Lucas Moore and is carries influences of Sufi, Turkish gypsy music as well as Jazz and Electronic Music.